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NEWS NOTES FROM WASHINGTON.

The public debt reduction for the month OF
June amounted to about $15,OO0,OO0.
The net decrease in the public debt for the
fiscal year ended July Let was $1O9,7O7 ,646.
Mrs. Cleveland has been invited to write a
short story at her own price, for one OF the lead
ing magazines.
Secretary Bayard's health is again said to be
failing, and he is credited with the old desire to
retire from public life.
For the year ended July LIST, 1887, 2,452
buildings were erected in Washington, an increase
of about 260 over the preceding year.
During the month of June 243 marriage Ii
censes were issued in Washington and there were
Z applications for divorce in the same month.
Secretary Whitney entertained the employees
of the Navy Department at "Grasslands," his
country seat near Washington, on the Fourth.
Mrs. Cleveland has turned her back upon
the White House for the season, the Presidential
home now being at Oak View, from which place
the President drives to the capital every day.
During the fiscal year just ended the Pension
Office issued Ill, $40 pension certificates OF this
number 1914 were original cases; $3.50 were
"amputation" cases, and 32,1O7 were increase
cases.
The total Government receipts for June were
$50, O709S5, and the total receipts for the fiscal
year were 1911 1886, S9f made up as follows Gus
toms, S217 400, 1888 internal revenue $119, 1885,
457 miscellaneous, 49,, S40,463.
Nearly $30, of the appropriations tor fuel,
lights and water, and for contingent expenses OF
public buildings under the Treasury Department,
remained unexpended at the end of the last fiscal
year, and the money was covered into the treasury
Another crank has appeared in Washington
in the person of man named Benedict Krebs,
who threatens to kill the President with shot
gun because, as he alleges, Mr.. Cleveland has de-
frauded him out of large sum of money. The
crank was locked up.
An examination Of the accounts Of the late
Levi Bacon, who was for many years financial
clerk ofthe Interior Department, shows deficiency
of $4,000. Mr.. Bacon did not appropriate the
money to his own use, but the accounts show that
he was too accommodatingto his friends, many OF
whom were allowed to over draw.
The President writes all his public papers
with his own hand He writes very rapidly and
makes very few alterations in revising. He is a
hard worker and has very few leisure moments
while he is in the White House. He eats simple
food, never has wine at table unless there are
ouests and onIy smokes once a day.
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THIs is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
l. scribers have obtained from the Orphans
Court for Baltimore county, letters testamentary
on the estate Of
WILHELMINA Ollie,
late of said county deceased. All persons having
claims against the said estate are hereby warned
to exhibit the same with the vouchers thereof to
the subscribers,
on or before the I'd day Of February, 1888;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit OF said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment
Given under our hands this 2Sth day of June, 1887
HENRY WEES,
July 2.-4t*
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NHIs rs TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
Il scriber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Baltimore county, letters testamentary
on the estate of
AUGUSTUS W. SWEENY,
late Of said county deceased. All persons having
claims against the deceased are hereby warned to
exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof to the
subscriber,
on or before the 25th day Of January, 1888;
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment
Given under my hand this I'D day of May, 1887.
ELIZA J. SWEENY,
June 25.-4t* Executrix.
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in THE HIGHLANDS!

IN The HIGHLANDS!
1900 FEET ABOVE THE SEA!
Western Maryland College,
WESTMINSTER, MD.
For both sexes, in separate departments.
Steadily rising in patronage and reputation.
Charges lower than ever and no extras.
Extensive additions and Improvements now go
ing on.
Preparatory Course.
Collegiate Courses of three or four years.
Normal Course. Prof. Reisler, Principal.
Business Course.
Department of Art. Four Professors.
Physical Culture.
Christian Home.
Send for catalogue to
T. H. LEWIS, President.
July 9.-5t*
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New Advertisements.
MARE AND COLT FOR SALE,

Can be seen at Mr.. John Malonees q =
farm, Green Spring Valley. Apply to IA:
y GRIFFITH JONES, Owner,
July 9.-1t*) 319 N. High St., Baltimore.
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,EORTGAGEE'S SALE

YellOtt s. Offutt, Attorneys, TOwsontown,
and rs Lexington ST., Baltimore.
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DOR SALE.

rFTE
A very ine Aldsrney COW, fresh, with 1aSslssx
Calf by her side. Also, lot of very nice Jersey
Red PIGS, all ages. Apply to
CHARLES THOMAS,
Hampton Mill, near Towsontown. Towson P. 0.
July 9-2t
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NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS
BALTIMORE COUNTY

NOTICE TO TAX PAYERS
IN IN
BALTIMORE COUNTY
OFFICE OF TREASURER AND COLLECTOR OF
TAXES OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, :
TowsoNTowN, Nd, May 9th, 1881
Notice is hereby given to the TAXPAYERS
OF BALTIMORE COUNTY, that the Treasurer
and Collector of COUNTY AND STATE TAXES
is prepared to receive the same at his Office, TOW
SONT0WN, DAILY.
OFFICE HOURS
April 1st to November LIST, from A. M. to 5. P. M
November LIST to April 1st, from A. M. to P. NJ
MArON SATURDAYS ONLY-GN
At the Banking House of John s. Cuttings &c
Co., corner of Fayette and North Sts.,
Baltimore, Nd,
from 10 A. M. to q P. NJ.
HENRY j. HEBB,
Treasurer and Collector.
s sSsSs { jS S si $ss5rr
May7tDec.11.
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New Advertisement It's.
NOTICE..

NOTICE. m
A Quarterly Meeting of the Western NrsA.
Run Horse Thief Detective Co. will be held at
DUNCAN'S HALL, Friday, July 18th, 1887, at
8 o'clock P. M. J. ID. MATTHEWS,
July 9.-1t.) Secretary
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NOTICE.

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the STOCK
HOLDERS OF THE WAVERLY MUTUAL
AND PERMANENT LAND, LOAN AND
BUILDING ASSOCIATION, of Waverly, Balti
more county, will be held IN WAVERLY HALL.
Monday, July 11th, 1887, at s o'clock P. NJ, to
ELECT DIRECTORS for the ensuing year.
By order, JOHN SPRING,
June 25.-3t. Secretary.
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IS IN ~ .zSzI8

One good Horse, l Mule, Shoat, Chickens, l
two horse Wagon, Hay Carriage, l one-horse
Spring Wagon, Plow, Harrow, Double Shovel
Pow, Single Shovel Plow, Cultivator, Hay Cover,
sets Breechbands, heavy set Single Harness,
Chains, Forks, Hoes, Stacks of Hay. Also, 2
Bedsteads, Washstands, good No. 8 Star Cook
Stove, 2 Coal Stoves, Chairs and other house
hold articles.
TERMS All sums Of $40 and under, Cash
all sums over $40 credit of months, with in
terest, will be given, and notes to be endorsed to
the satisfaction Of the undersigned. Nothing to
DO removed until terms are complied with.
HENRY S. WHEELER.
.JuIv g--ts
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OWARTHMORE COLLEGE,
~ SWARTH UO r r. p

y SWARTHMORE PA,
OPENS 9TH MONTH, 18TH. Thirty minutes
from Broad St. Station, Philadelphia. Under
the care of Friends, but all others admitted Full
college course for both sexes Classical, Scientific
and Literary. Also Manual Training School.
Healthful location, large grounds, new and extern
sive buildings and apparatus. For Catalogue and
full particulars, address EDWARD H. MAGILL,
LII. D., President. June 25.-15t.
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The undersigned, intending to remove to Bal.
timore, will sell at public sale, on
Tuesday, July 26th, 1887,
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Miscellaneous.
GRAND JURY REPORT

z FOR THE :
May Term of the Circuit Court for Balti-
more County.
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STUMP & BRO, REAL ESTATE b
THIRD ANNUAL PICNIC

Firemen's Insurance Building, Baltimore.
June4tApL30.
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Legal Notices.
Schmucker & Whitelock, Attorneys, 10 IL.
Lexington St., Baltimore.
ORDER NISI.

ORDER NISI.
HENRY NJ. LORD, NEXT FRIEND OF
WILLIAM M. LORD, AN INFANT, VS.. WILL
LIAM M. LORD, INFANT, an the Circuit Court
for Baltimore county, an Equity.
ORDERED by the Circuit Court for Baltimore
county, this 2lst day of June, 1887 that the phi
vate sale made and reported by Samuel d.
Schumacher, Trustee, be ratified and confirmed,
unless cause to the contrary thereof be shown, on
or before the 18th day Of July 1887, provided a
copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper
printed and published in Baltimore county, once
in each of three successive weeks before the 18th
day of July, 1887. The report states the amount
of sales to be 81, 6SO.O0.
DAVID FOWLER.
True Copy-Test:
JOHN W. SHANKLIN, Clerk.
June 25.-4t.
T,HIs is TO GIVE NOTICE, That the SUBJ
i scrber has obtained from the Orphans
Court of Baltimore county, letters of admins
tration on the estate of
CATHERINE LAUMANN,
late of said county, deceased. All persons having
exhibit the same, with the vouchers thereof, to
the subscriber,
on or before the 25th day Of Januory, 1888,
they may otherwise by law be excluded from all
benefit of said estate. Those indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 21st day of June, 1887.
LOUIS LAUMANN,
June 25.-4t* Administrator G. t. a.
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On the promises, in the I'd district, Is miles from
Baltimore, on the Liberty Turnpike, opposite
Wards Church, the following personal property
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TOR SALE VERY CHEAP.

FOR SALE VERY CHEAP.
A HIGHLY IMPROVED LITTLE FARM OF
FORTY ACRES,
THREE AND A HALF MILES FROM TOW
SoNTOwN,
NEAR LOCH RAVEN STATION, MARY
LAND CENTRAL RAILROAD.
LAND UNDER HIGH STATE OF CULTIVA-
TIoN AND VERY PRODUCTIVE.
FOR SALE LOW AND ON EASY TERMS.
Address H. C. TURNBULL, JR.,
No. IL E. Lexington street, Baltimore Md.
May14tJan.15.
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M o OF 81
A Fine Farm in the Eleventh Election Dis
trict, Baltimore County.
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EOR ASSOCIATE JUDGE
OF THE

June 1S.-tp
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To Messrs. Thomas II. Jenifer, Henry w.
mittee 9th District, Baltimore county.
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DAVID FOWLER.

JOHN W. sHANKLIN, Clerk.
Iuna 05-At
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
Mr.. Beecher's Appearance
and Habits.

In personal appearance Mr.. Beecher
was one of the most striking men about
New York. He was of medium height,
with broad shoulders and heavy girth-
so stout and fleshy, in fact, that he
looked short in inches. His head was
large, though not bullying or irregular.
His forehead was high and his features
were strong and full. His color was
high, his cheeks and neck being always
full-veined and rudy. His hair was
gray, turning to white in recent years,
and hung in loose locks down on his
black coat-collar. His face was always
smooth-shaven. His eyes were of a
grayish blue, full of fire and expression
in his moments of feeling, always hui
morous and inquisitive. He never paid
great attention to dress, though far
from being an unkempt or slovenly
man. He wore dark clothes usually
and black SLOUGH hat habitually. He
never could be brought to put on silk
hat or " claw-hammer coat, wear
ing Prince Albert coat on formal
occasions. Even in the pulpit he sub
stituted a rundown collar and black
necktie for the more conventional cleri-
cal " choker" and white tie. He was,
in fact, unconventional and Indifferent
in most of the smaller details of life.
Mr.. Beecher was for many years
sufferer from hay-fever and spent his
summers for long time in the White
Mountains. He was noted figure at
the Twin Mountain House, and one of
the mountain pools near by, into which
he fell one day, has been known in the
guide books as 50 BeeCher's POOL In
the last few years the hay-fever seemed
to leave him, and he had spent most of
his summers since 1880 at his Peek
skill country house. From his fulness
of habit and temperament apoplexy
has long been feared by his physicians.
But until the stroke came his general
health had been exceptionally good
Mr.. Beecher's indifference in dress
and other personal matters extended to
his money affairs. He was undeniably
careless about money, and his gener-
Gus disposition often got him into tenn
porary financial straits.
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eastern shore of each is comparatively
little assailed by shocks. The northern,
or Venezuelan, district of South Amer
lea, which is apparently the seat of an
active mountain growth, of which there
is no parallel in the northern continent,
is district of recurrent shocks of great
violence, such as have never been OBJ
served in high ATTITUDES on our own
continent On the other hand, the re-
gion from the mouth of the Amazon to
the La Plata river, which corresponds
to our seaboard Atlantic States and
the provinces of Canada, enjoys an i'm
munity from disturbances probably not
exceeded by any other equally extern
sive area occupied by the Aryan race,
while the corresponding regionin North
America is much less fortunate. Pro-
lessor N. s. Shaler, IN ScriJner's Mag
dzine for Murch.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-16
What Is an Instinct 4!

Instinct is usually defined as the fac
ulty of acting in such way as to pro-
duce certain ends without foresight of
the ends, and without previous educa-
ton in the performance. That in
stincts, as thus defined, exist on an
enormous scale in the animal kingdom
needs no proof. They are functional
correlatives of structure. With the
presence of certain organ goes, one
may say, almost always a native apt-
tude for its use. A very common way
of talking about these admirably de-
finite tendencies to act is by naming alb
stractly the purpose they subserve,
such as self-preservation, or defence,
or care for eggs and young-and say
ing the animal has an instructive fear
of death and love of life, or that she
has an instinct of self-preservation, or
an instinct of maternity and the like.
But this represents that animal as
obeying distractions which, not once
in million cases, is it possible it can
have framed The strict physiological
way of interpreting the facts leads to
far clearer results. The actions we
call instructive all conform to the gen.
eral reflex type; they are called forth
by determinate sensory stimuli in con-
tact with the animals body, or at dis
lance in his environment. The cat
runs after the mouse, runs or shows
fight before the dog, avoids falling
from walls or trees, shuns fire and
water, ETC., not because he has any no.
ton either of life or of death, or of self,
or of preservation. He has probably
attained to no one of these conceptions
in such a way as to react definitely
upon it. He acts in each case sepa-
rately, and simply because he cannot
help it, being so framed that when that
particular running thing called a mouse
appears in his field of vision he must
pursue; that when that particular bark
ing and obstreperous thing called dog
appears there, he must retire, if at a
distance, and scratch if closely by;
that he must withdraw his feet from
water and his face from flame, etc.
His nervous system is, to a great ex-
tent, a programmed bundle of such re-
actions-they are fatal as sneezing, and
as exactly correlated to their special
excitants as it is to its own. Although
the naturalist may, for his own con-
venience, class these reactions under
general heads, he must not forget that
in the animal it is a particular sensa-
ton or perception or image which
calls them forth.-Protessor William
James, an Scribner'S Magazine.
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The Distribution of Earthquakes.

In the present condition of the earth
crust, so far as the brief historic record
goes to show, earthquakes of an inten-
sity menacing to man are limited to
certain regions which probably do not
altogether include more than one-fourth
of the area of the lands, though shocks
of less degree of violence appear to
be common to every part of the surface
of the continents. The regions of re-
current shocks of considerable violence
are so irregularly distributed that they
cannot be adequately noted in this brief
essay. They include, in Europe, Ice
land, Portugal, Spain, southern Italy,
the region of the lower Danube and
some of the islands of the Grecian
Archipelago. In Asia the larger part
of Asia Minor, several limited areas in
Hindostan, the greater part of the east
ern littoral region of Asia and the
islands of the japanese and Malayan
Archipelagoes are subjected to destruc-
tive shocks. In Africa there is, save
in Egypt, little architecture to suffer
from earthquake disturbance, and even
little history to record it. Egypt seems
to have been, on the whole, singularly
cAculpl lIOll Slcdl earthquakes, Nullc
the western portion of the Mediter-
ranean face of the continent shares the
disturbances from which the Spanish
peninsula has repeatedly suffered. The
vast Australian and Polynesian district
of the Pacific affords a number of re-
gions of great earthquake activity, of
which New Zealand is the only one
where we have anything like good OBJ
servatons for even few score years.
1t may be said, however, that the
greater part of this vast area seems to
be more exempt from these indications
of activity in the crust than any other
equally extensive part of the earth's
surface. We now come to the twin
continents, North and South America.
The obvious resemblances in the physi-
cal confguration of these continents
lead us to expect a likeness in their con-
ditions of stability. This resemblance
in a certain measure exists. The west
ern shore of both of these continents,
the seward face of the great Cordil-
leran range of mountains, is the seat
of the most frequent and, on the whole,
the most energetic disturbances which
occur within their limits, while the
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proved the nearest of kin, and conse
quently heir-at-law to the $500 left by
the late Mr.. James landlord"
Miss Reed folded up the letter and
put il soberly into her jacket pocket.
She had scarcely realized before how
much she had been counting upon it.
There was nothing left now but to put
on brave face and make the best of it.
Mrs. Stewart" she said, knocking
at the door of that lady's sitting-room
before she began her morning practice,
81 want to tell you l have heard
about that legacy at last"
Well?" Mrs. Stewart looked up
from her desk, pen in hand.
It's not well" said Barbara, trying
to smile. "There is some one nearer
than | ANA Mrs. Elizabeth Drake.
She gets it all-it was $500"
Mrs. Stewart laid down her pen and
patted the girls shoulder kindly.
Never mind, Barbara; you may be
glad to have missed it some day, though
it's not pleasant now There are many
other good things in the world beside
money"
I" 1t would have helped very nicely,
though" sighed Barbara.
"No doubt; but it's not to be, so just
try and forget it. You know you are
not utterly dependent upon it,"
As Barbara crossed the hall to the
school-room that afternoon she en-
countered Mr.. Lawrence. He was
standing at the table buttoning his
light gloves. She saw at the first
glance that Mrs. Stewart had told him
of her disappointment She hesitated
one instant, then went straight up to
him.
"You see | am not to come into a
fortune, after all" she said, quietly.
$50 it seems" he said, coldly, not
looking up from a refractory button.
But it was not much of a fortune,
after all. thought it was to be five
or six times that amount"
" | wish l had never heard of it."
spoke Barbara, looking at him in scorn-
full surprise. 1t has been nothing but
an upset and annoyance"
eyes, it is rather apity-disappoint-
ing and waste of time, too. Well, !
am going into the country for a few
weeks, Miss Reed, so good afternoon if
| don't chance to see you again"
"Good afternoon" returned Bar
DdId, Will lIlSlu DOW, DIS oHe OpcHeu
the school-room door.
A tiny note was dropped into the pill
lar-post that same evening addressed to
Mr.. John Grant.
dear john" it ran, "I'm not half
good enough for you, but if you still
wish it'll try"
1t was not, perhaps, great achieve
ment in the way of composition for a
young lady who had been under Mrs.
Stewards guidance for so long, but it
perfectly satisfied the person it was in
tended for, and much loftier epistles
have often failed in that respect.
Mrs. Stewart, that unfortunate
legacy was something to my advantage,
after ALL" Mrs. John Grant said some
months later: " l don't know what Mrs.
Elizabeth Drake did with it, but do
know / would not change with her.
The missing it has brought me far more
happiness than the getting it ever
could. "-Selected.
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Mistrllanp.
Play and Work.

follow, careless, where 1t leads
The idle brook, so pearly fair.
BY messy banks. through swaying reeds,
Still murmurng, wandering here and there
It chafes along its pebbly ways.
And where the fern the gray rock crowns
1t darkens, Swallowed as it plays,
Then breaks in little ripping frowns.
And still complaining all along
The measures of It's idle days,
Till in the rivers breast its song
Sinks to a low-breathed psalm of praise.
And singing softly, broad and deep.
Through busy days of golden light
II flows. till whispering dreams of sleep
Bless all its star-gemmed peaceful night.
-Robert j. Buideffe.
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If your lungs are destroyed do not
expect that DR.. Pierce's Golden Med
ical Discovery will make new ones for
you. 1t can do much, but not impos-
sibilties. If, however, you have not
yet reached the last stages of consump-
ton, there is hope for you. But do not
delay, lest you cross the fatal line where
help is impossible. The Discovery has
arrested the aggravating cough of thou
sands of consumptiyes, cured their
night-sweats and hectic fevers and re-
stored them to health and happiness.
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Selrttco Storm.
1t Must BE Earned.

Fooled by our fellow-men, depressed outworn,
We leave the brutal world to take its way,
And Patience in another life," we say
" The world shall he thrust down, and upborneP
And will not, then, the immortal armies scorn
The worlds poor routed leavings? or will they
who failed under the heat of this life's day
Support the fervors of the heavenly morn2
No, MOI the energy of life may be
Kept on after the grave, but not begunl
And he who tagged not In the early strife,
From strength to strength advancing-only he,
His soul wellknit, and all his battles won,
Mounts and that hardly, to eternal life.
--MdtfheU Arnold
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GOLD mines are very uncertain prop
erty; for every paying mine hundred
exist that do not pay. But if you write
to Hallett q Co., Portland, Maine, you
will receive, free, full particulars about
their new business, and learn how some
have made over $50 in single day at
it. You can live at home and earn
from IS to S25 and upwards per day
wherever you are located. Both sexes;
all ages. Capital not required; you are
started free. Send your address and
all will be proved to you.